The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing (Annotated Instructor's Edition)

The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing won great acclaim in its first edition for its full integration of reading and writing instruction. Each chapter includes reading selections, assignments, and instruction that reinforce the writing instruction and assignments. These assignments provide students with a wide range of writing and reading opportunities that are personal, public, pragmatic, and aesthetic. Instruction in each chapter focuses on important concepts such as purpose and audience, modes of development, and thesis/support. The readings reflect a balance of female and male authors as well as diverse ethnic backgrounds.

This purpose-based rhetoric with readings emphasizes the interactions between reading and writing. The text provides an innovative five-part organization comprised of a Concepts section that introduces purpose and audience and the reading/writing processes; the main section of the book, Purposes, that explains reading and writing purposes by way of thematically organized reading selections and writing assignments; a Research section that focuses on the resources and strategies required for both library and field research; a Strategies section that explains the strategies, techniques, and concepts writers use to create effective texts; and a Handbook that offers guidelines for diction, usage, punctuation, and mechanics. This five-part arrangement ensures that students have easy access to important concepts without the repetition of most purpose-based rhetorics. The Simon & Schuster Guide to Writing brief edition offers the same organization without the handbook.